CPSC abbr.
Consumer Product Safety Commission (美国)消费品安全委员会
- "The Spinning Bee," a toy top made by Artsana of America, contains a small toy bee with four rubber feet that could cause small children to choke, the CPSC said.
- CPSC spokesman Dan Rumelt said most of the toys come from Taiwan, with the rest from Hong Kong, China and South Korea.
- It also would give consumers and state officials more power to push for quicker CPSC action or for remedies in court.
- By mid-March, all manufacturers of the cushions had stopped production, the CPSC said.
- Jacqueline Jones-Smith, CPSC chairwoman, said 19 infants 3 months old or younger had been "found dead lying stomach-down" on the cushions since September 1987.
- Last month the CPSC recalled 3 million cans of another spray string produced by a New Jersey-based manufacturer that has since reformulated its propellant.
- "As I understand the decree, the agency represented here _ CPSC _ is not able to issue a rule under the statute which would be in many respects more severe" than the sanctions imposed by the consent decree, Gesell said.
- Toys R Us, which operates 411 discount toy stores, and the other companies were named in civil suits filed Monday by the Justice Department and the CPSC.
- CPSC spokesman Dan Rumelt said the toys were mostly imported from Taiwan but also were made in Hong Kong, China and South Korea.
- The CPSC recently began the first step of a three-part rulemaking process that could result in mandatory warning labels for balloons.
- Delivering the CPSC's annual toy safety advisory, chairwoman Jacqueline Jones-Smith said 254 toys and 119 children's products had been the targets of recalls or corrective actions this year, compared to 111 toys and 39 children's products in 1988.
- "The Spinning Bee," a toy top made by Artsana of America, contains a small toy bee with four rubber feet that could cause small children to choke, the CPSC said Monday.
- The revised consent decree eliminates a provision that allowed the CPSC to initiate a general recall only if it found "new and substantial evidence" the vehicles were hazardous.
- He said the Oregon PIRG had notified the CPSC about 12 toys it found in stores in the state that may pose a small parts hazard. The national survey is modeled after one conducted annually by the Oregon group since 1986.
- The CPSC said there have been no reports of injuries involving the toy but the voluntary recall was done as a preventive action.